Poem-a-Day

Poem-a-Day is the original, daily poetry series featuring new poems by today’s poets. Produced by the Academy of American Poets, this free digital series is made possible by you, our readers and listeners. Theme music by Kat Rejsek. Audio engineering by Thea Matthews. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.

Books
1126
Juan Ramón Jiménez: "One Night"
2 min
1127
Lauri García Dueñas and Olivia Lott: "0"
8 min
1128
John Keene: "Looking at Photos"
3 min
1129
Douglas Kearney: "The Thing of Nature That Defi...
3 min
1130
Monica Youn: "Leave"
3 min
1131
Bernadette Mayer: "The Lobelias of Fear"
2 min
1132
Harryette Mullen: "Conversation in Isolation"
2 min
1133
José Santos Chocano: "A Song of the Road"
3 min
1134
Rosalía de Castro: "The Carillon"
2 min
1135
Carolina Ebeid: "Silueta of Crushed Lipstick an...
4 min
1136
Andrea Blancas Beltran: "Year of the Rat, Full ...
3 min
1137
Cecilia Vicuña: "The Disappeared"
4 min
1138
Anna Maria Hong: "We Were"
2 min
1139
David Shapiro: "The Only Emperor"
3 min
1140
Khushal Khan Khattak: "[Know thou well this wor...
4 min
1141
Fenton Johnson: "Rulers"
1 min
1142
Hoa Nguyen: "The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer"
3 min
1143
Joseph Rios: "For Henry's Bar"
4 min
1144
Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"
3 min
1145
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1146
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1147
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1148
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1149
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1150
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min